El Alamein by Bryn Hammond

Author:Bryn Hammond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War
ISBN: 9781780964539
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2012-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

In early October we went to a demonstration of mine clearing by ‘Scorpions’ near Burg-el-Arab. The Scorpion was the old infantry tank stripped of its superfluities and fitted with a roller and chains to flail the ground ahead of it in order to explode the mines. These had been under design and construction for some months but it was heartening to see that we British were at last thinking in terms of machines to do the job of men.50

However, the Scorpions were not available in large numbers and were usually held in reserve for emergencies.

It should be stressed that not every unit required to clear mines had detectors. For those that did not, the procedure was to probe with a bayonet – a much slower method. Any approach was laden with risk from booby traps, as Frank Devaney experienced:

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